Project Kangaroo

I’ve just discovered that a number of the team I worked with in developing Channel 4’s 4oD service have been involved in a new Video On Demand service, known as Project Kangaroo.

The service was intended to bring together full length programmes from the BBC, iTV and Channel 4, combining their current catch up services with a huge back catalogue of programmes.

Unforunately, the Competition Commision published a report on the 4th February 2009, blocking the project.

On 30 June 2008, the UK’s Office of Fair Trading referred the proposal to the Competition Commission with concerns that “there was a danger that the platform could be too powerful”. The Commission published an interim report on 03 December saying that the service could “hurt competition” and a final report on 04 February 2009 blocking the project.

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